It's battle between the impossibly dominant alpha males from both sides of the pond.  British spy and unstoppable ladies' man James Bond got his first Skyfall teaser trailer in the middle of the night.  Now, San Diego's finest newscaster is proving that he, and by extension America, are kind of a big deal, as next year's Anchorman sequel now has not one, but two teaser trailers online.  That's right.  Two.

It's Wednesday, May 16th, which means that Sacha Baron Cohen and Larry Charles' The Dictator is opening in theaters from coast to magnificent coast.  That, in and of itself would be cause for celebration, since the movie's a fun mixture of intelligent satire and calculated idiocy.  But humanity can raise its hands to the heavens in thanks that the first teaser trailer for Anchorman 2 is attached to The Dictator, giving our first taste of the Channel 4 Newsteami n years, like the first taste of coffee after a long sleepless night.

Only the biggest of big would-be blockbusters get super-teasery teaser trailers way ahead of their releases.  We're talking about the Godzillas and Spider-Men and the like.  Movies with marketing budgets greater than the GDP of many industrialized nations and more stars than the damn Milky Way Galaxy.  It's appropriate, then, that the sequel to Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, has a teaser before it has a script or release date.  It's kind of a big deal, after all.

Five years ago, while the central characters in Knocked Up were dealing with an unexpected pregnancy, supporting characters Pete and Debbie struggled through their marriage and parenthood.  For his fourth feature as writer-director, Judd Apatow and stars Leslie Mann and Paul Rudd are doubling back into their relationship with "the sort-of sequel" This Is 40.  The first trailer has arrived online, and it doesn't disappoint, promising that potent blend of Apatow-approved drama and comedy (both observant and over the top).

Two weeks ago, the world rejoiced and the angelic choirs sang as Ron Burgundy himself announced on national television that a sequel to 2004's Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy was finally happening.  The finest newscaster in 1970s San Diego is indeed returning, along with his formidable newsteam, but just what shenanigans they'll get into is pretty mysterious.  Adam McKay, who returns as director and co-writer, has given a tiny bit of information on just what the not-really-titled Anchorman 2 will be about and how it came to be after so long.

A sequel to Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy is finally, mercifully, wonderfully happening.  Paramount Pictures, which resisted the idea of an Anchorman 2 for the last few years, but the studio has apparently come it to its collective senses and the sequel is proceeding with the original director and cast on board.  The finest 1970's news team in the greater San Diego area is finally coming back to theaters.

This Friday sees the release of Wanderlust, a new comedy directed by David Wain, the man behind Wet Hot American Summer and Role Models.  In the film, co-written by Wain and Ken Marino, Paul Rudd and Jennifer Aniston play George and Linda, a married couple accustomed to the frantic New York lifestyle, lived from their newly-purchased "micro-loft," until their financial implosion forces them on the road, where they stumble upon an idyllic commune known as Elysium.

While Elysium is populated by a collection of strange characters such as Alan Alda's geriatric community founder and Joe Lo Truglio's nudist winemaking novelist, Justin Theroux and Malin Akerman play the two most pivotal Elysium characters.  As an actor, Theroux is recognizable from Your Highness, Mulholland Drive, and an eight-episode arc on Parks and Recreation, though he also served as a writer on Tropic Thunder and Iron Man 2.  Akerman, meanwhile, starred as Sally Jupiter in Watchmen and has also appeared in The Proposal, Happythankyoumoreplease, Couples Retreat, and on the Adult Swim series Childrens Hospital.

In Wanderlust, Theroux plays Elysium's leader Seth, an aphorism-spouting alpha male preoccupied with technology like the Discman, pagers, and the Nintendo Power Glove.  Akerman plays Eva, a kind-hearted free spirit whose sexual openness and directness both thrill and frighten Rudd's character.  At the Los Angeles press day for Wanderlust, Justin Theroux and Malin Ackerman sat down with a group of outlets including IAR to discuss  on-set nudity, improvising, the appeal of communal living, cracking up on set, narcissim, working with David Wain, and Rock of Ages, this year's musical starring Akerman and co-written by Theroux.

Neither Paul Rudd nor Jennifer Aniston require inventories of their respective resumes, what with being movie stars and household names.  It's worth noting, though, that the two have acted alongside each other; first, fourteen years ago in the drama The Object of My Affection, then consistently from 2002 to 2004, when Rudd played a recurring character on Friends, the sitcom on which Aniston starred for ten seasons.

Now, they reunite in this Friday's Wanderlust, the new comedy from David Wain, who previously directed Role Models, Wet Hot American Summer, and The Ten.  In Wanderlust, Rudd and Aniston play George and Linda, a married couple accustomed to a harried New York lifestyle that includes a tiny, newly-purchased studio apartment.  When circumstance forces them to leave Manhattan, however, they end up at Elysium, a commune populated by eccentric characters.  With its laid-back inhabitants and simple, natural setting, Elysium begins to change both George and Linda in surprising ways.

At a Los Angeles press conference for the film, Paul Rudd and Jennifer Aniston spoke to a group of journalists about the experience of filming Wanderlust, working with David Wain, reuniting on a new movie, onscreen nudity, communal living, Wain's "Bizarro Cut" consisting entirely of footage that didn't make the final cut, improvisation, and, of course, The Spin Doctors.

Some red band trailers are chock full of objectionable language, lascivious nudity, and blood-spurting violence.  Others just use the red-band to slide in an f-bomb or two, reflecting accurately the tonal difference between a PG-13 and an R-rated film. 

Such is the case with a new red-band trailer for Wanderlust.  It's not strikingly gross and contains no violence whatsoever, but it does contain Paul Rudd swearing at least once and a fairly extensive look at Joe Lo Truglio's bare buttocks.  More than that, it boasts a focus on inoffensive, good-natured sexuality, with Malin Ackerman in particular putting the moves on Rudd.

It's 2012, and while most of the year's movie-based anticipation is centered on a Batman rising and a bunch of Marvel superheroes working together, there are also plenty of other new hotness on the way.  Among the movies about which audiences will find themselves all excited this year are Gangster Squad, Men in Black III, The Hunger Games, and This Is Forty.  Luckily, all four movies are featured in a 2012 preview from the LA Times, meaning that we now have new images from each, starting with the Ruben Fleischer-directed tale of 1950's criminality in Los Angeles and ending with the first official still from Judd Apatow's third movie.